The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to Number 45472 (Paperback)
$16.77 - Save $0.18 (1%) - RRP $16.95 Free shipping worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Sixteenth Round Previously published: New York: Viking, 1974.
Full description- Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
- Published: 01 April 2011
- Format: Paperback 339 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Autobiography: General | Biography: Sport | Autobiography: Sport | Memoirs | Black & Asian Studies | Boxing
- ISBN 13: 9781569765678 ISBN 10: 1569765677
- Sales rank: 7,875
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Full description for The Sixteenth Round
The survivor of a difficult childhood and youth, Rubin Carter rose to become a top contender for the middleweight boxing crown. But his career crashed to a halt on May 26, 1967, when he and another man were found guilty of the murder of three white people in a New Jersey bar. While in prison, Carter chronicled the events that led him from the ring to three consecutive life sentences and 10 years in solitary confinement. His story was a cry for help to the public, an attempt to set the record straight and force a new trial. Bob Dylan wrote a classic anthem for Carter's struggle; and Joan Baez, Muhammad Ali, Roberta Flack, and thousands more took up the cause as well. Originally published in 1974, this account is an eye-opening examination of growing up black in America, problems in the United States prison system, and Carter's own battles.
